id int64 | title string | author string | translator string | language string | subjects list | rights string | created timestamp[s] | url string | text string |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
73,459 | "... Mutta -- naivat tummaverisiä" | Loos, Anita, 1893-1981 | Hedman, Valfrid, 1872-1939 | fi | ["Humorous stories","Young women -- Fiction","Diary fiction","Man-woman relationships -- Fiction","M(...TRUNCATED) | Public domain in the USA. | 2024-04-24T00:00:00 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73459 | "###### \"… MUTTA — NAIVAT TUMMAVERISIÄ\"\n\nKirj.\n\nAnita Loos\n\nHämeenlinnassa,\nArvi A. K(...TRUNCATED) |
73,458 | "Herrat pitävät vaaleaverisistä" | Loos, Anita, 1893-1981 | Hedman, Valfrid, 1872-1939 | fi | ["Humorous stories","Young women -- Fiction","Diary fiction","Man-woman relationships -- Fiction","M(...TRUNCATED) | Public domain in the USA. | 2024-04-24T00:00:00 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73458 | "###### \"HERRAT PITÄVÄT VAALEAVERISISTÄ\"\n\nTuloillaan elävän naisen valaiseva päiväkirja\n(...TRUNCATED) |
53,291 | "Huone" ja "Timon" | Lucian, of Samosata, 120-180 | Forsman, Kaarlo, 1851-1918 | fi | [
"Lucian, of Samosata -- Translations into Finnish"
] | Public domain in the USA. | 2016-10-16T00:00:00 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53291 | "\"HUONE\" ja \"TIMON\"\n\nKirj.\n\nLukianos\n\nKirjallishistoriallisella johdannolla varusti, suome(...TRUNCATED) |
27,841 | "Kukka kultain kuusistossa": Komedia yhdessä näytöksessä | Rahkonen, Aleksanteri, 1841-1877 | null | fi | [
"Finnish drama -- 19th century"
] | Public domain in the USA. | 2009-01-19T00:00:00 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27841 | "Produced by Tapio Riikonen\n\n# \"KUKKA KUKKAIN KUUSISTOSSA\"\n\nKomedia yhdessä näytöksessä\n\(...TRUNCATED) |
60,931 | "Muru": Huvinäytelmä yhdessä näytöksessä | Tavaststjerna, Karl August, 1860-1898 | Levander, Anni, 1866-1911 | fi | [
"Swedish drama -- Translations into Finnish"
] | Public domain in the USA. | 2019-12-15T00:00:00 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60931 | "###### \"MURU\"\n\nHuvinäytelmä yhdessä näytöksessä\n\nKirj.\n\n##### KARL AUGUST TAVASTSTJER(...TRUNCATED) |
46,910 | "Nuori Kotka" ja vanha metsästäjä | Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 | Reijonen, Sohvi, 1864-1930 | fi | ["Historical fiction","Adventure stories","Bumppo, Natty (Fictitious character) -- Fiction","Frontie(...TRUNCATED) | Public domain in the USA. | 2014-09-20T00:00:00 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46910 | "\"NUORI KOTKA\" JA VANHA METSƒSTƒJƒ\n\nKirj.\n\nJames Fenimore Cooper\n\nSuomeksi mukaillut nuor(...TRUNCATED) |
73,642 | "Ole, sielun', iloinen!" | Tiitus, 1883-1940 | null | fi | [
"Finnish wit and humor"
] | Public domain in the USA. | 2024-05-16T00:00:00 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73642 | "###### \"OLE, SIELUN’, ILOINEN!\"\n\nKirj.\n\nTiitus [Ilmari Kivinen]\n\nTiituksen pakinoita 2.\n(...TRUNCATED) |
76,564 | "Onhan pappa sen sallinut" | Moser, Gustav von, 1825-1903; L'Arronge, Adolph, 1838-1908 | null | fi | [
"Comedy plays",
"One-act plays",
"German drama (Comedy) -- Translations into Finnish"
] | Public domain in the USA. | 2025-07-25T00:00:00 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76564 | "language: Finnish\n\n.\nONHAN PAPPA SEN SALLINUT\n\nIlveily yhdessä näytöksessä\n\nSuomennos G.(...TRUNCATED) |
42,738 | "Pater Paulus": Ivailu yhdessä näytöksessä | Weijola, Yrjö, 1875-1930 | null | fi | [
"Finnish drama"
] | Public domain in the USA. | 2013-05-19T00:00:00 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42738 | "# \"PATER PAULUS\"\n\nIlmasta temmattu ivailu yhdessä näytöksessä\n\nKirj.\n\n**YRJÖ WEIJOLA**(...TRUNCATED) |
19,670 | "Pikku poikani": Yksinäytöksinen näytelmä | Nervander, Emil Fredrik, 1840-1914 | null | fi | [
"Finnish drama"
] | Public domain in the USA. | 2006-10-30T00:00:00 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19670 | "Produced by Matti Järvinen, Tuija Lindholm and Distributed\n\nProofreaders Europe.\n\n# \"PIKKU PO(...TRUNCATED) |
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Finnish Project Gutenberg Books
Dataset Description
A collection of 3,505 Finnish-language books from Project Gutenberg, extracted from a January 2026 ZIM archive and converted to Markdown.
Statistics
| Total books | 3,505 |
| Unique authors | 1,101 |
| Books with translator | 1,451 |
| Total text | ~0.9 GB |
| Median book length | 178k characters |
| Mean book length | 258k characters |
| Min book length | ~12k characters |
| Max book length | ~2.5M characters |
Data Format
Each item has the following fields:
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
id |
int |
Project Gutenberg book ID |
title |
string |
Book title |
author |
string | null |
Author name(s), semicolon-separated if multiple |
translator |
string | null |
Translator name(s), if the work is a translation |
language |
string |
ISO 639-1 language code (all entries: fi) |
subjects |
list[string] |
Library of Congress subject headings |
rights |
string |
Rights statement (all entries: "Public domain in the USA.") |
created |
string |
Date first posted to Project Gutenberg (ISO date, e.g. 2024-04-24) |
url |
string |
Link to the book on gutenberg.org |
text |
string |
Full Markdown text of the book |
Example
{
"id": 73459,
"title": "\"... Mutta -- naivat tummaverisiä\"",
"author": "Loos, Anita, 1893-1981",
"translator": "Hedman, Valfrid, 1872-1939",
"language": "fi",
"subjects": ["Humorous stories", "Young women -- Fiction", "Diary fiction"],
"rights": "Public domain in the USA.",
"created": "2024-04-24",
"url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73459",
"text": "\"… MUTTA — NAIVAT TUMMAVERISIÄ\"\n\nKirj.\n\nAnita Loos\n..."
}
Source and Processing
The dataset was extracted from gutenberg_fi_all_2026-01.zim (the Kiwix offline archive of Finnish Gutenberg books) in the following way:
- Each HTML book entry is parsed to extract metadata
- HTML is converted to Markdown using
markdownify, preserving headings, emphasis, blockquotes, tables, and hr. Other elements are stripped. - Non-book and non-Finnish entries were filtered out.
Intended Use
This dataset is intended for training and evaluating Finnish language models, particularly for:
- Pretraining or fine-tuning text generation models
- Finnish NLP research
License
All texts carry the rights statement "Public domain in the USA." as recorded in each book's dc.rights metadata.
The books should not contain references to Project Gutenberg which would require following: https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html
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